The Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Car shot upward like a piercing arrow through the clouds.
It seemed as though Fang Yuan would truly break through the encirclement, but at that moment, Wan Zihong giggled sweetly and said in a coquettish voice, "Little thief Fang Yuan, you're not going anywhere."
The next instant, the sky above Fang Yuan's head abruptly transformed into vast, barren earth. The Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Car had been soaring skyward, yet in the blink of an eye, it was hurtling straight toward the ground.
Fang Yuan hastily brought the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Car to a halt.
The flying car's speed was astonishing, but the phantom of the River of Time beneath its hull served as a clever brake.
Just before crashing into the ground, Fang Yuan successfully stopped the Immortal Gu house.
Fang Yuan studied his surroundings carefully. The battlefield had undergone a bizarre transformation—the sky had suddenly become the earth, and the earth had violently flipped into sky, over and over again in a dizzying cycle. The entire world had become like a Rubik's cube, with patches of sky here and stretches of earth there, rearranged at random into a kaleidoscopic chaos.
Wan Zihong hovered in the air, while Fengxian Crown Prince stood at the same level—on the ground.
Fang Yuan felt like a tiny bug trapped inside this cosmic puzzle box, unable to find a way out. What appeared to be an exit through the sky would, in the next moment, become solid earth.
If it were ordinary ground, the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Car could simply plow straight through.
But this ground was clearly extraordinarily solid—sheer cliffs.
"What kind of technique is this?" Fang Yuan narrowed his eyes and looked toward Wan Zihong as he asked.
Wan Zihong replied, "This is the killer move Heaven and Earth Invert. To tell you the truth, it was designed by Heavenly Court specifically for you. The reason it was used against Ancestor Thousand Transformations was simply as a trial run first. Hee hee, I didn't expect you to be so impatient, rushing over here before we even finished."
As it turned out, Fang Yuan possessed the Fixed Fairy Travel Immortal Gu and had developed corresponding killer moves, along with the ancient Four Connectivities battle formation—making him extraordinarily fast when it came time to flee.
If Heavenly Court wanted to capture Fang Yuan, they first had to neutralize his escape methods. Before this, there had been the Space Lock Gu, but Fang Yuan had obtained it. Yuan Qiongdou had refined himself to exhaustion trying to reclaim it, yet had failed. Heavenly Court's resources ran deep, and they had assembled this killer move, Heaven and Earth Invert. Whether it was Fixed Fairy Travel or the Four Connectivities, all of it could be countered.
"Fang Yuan, this time there is no escape for you," Fengxian Crown Prince declared, wreathed in fierce flames.
"Surrender now, and perhaps we might spare your life," Wei Feng sneered, as wind blades swept in alongside him.
Meanwhile, the other two Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals had lunged toward Ancestor Thousand Transformations.
"The four Immortal Gu houses that Heavenly Court deployed are there to sustain the killer move Heaven and Earth Invert. The true combat strength lies in the four Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals," Fang Yuan noted, a sharp glint flashing through his eyes.
He had no desire to prolong this fight—there was nothing to gain from exchanging blows with these Gu Immortals.
With just the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Car and his apparent strength, defeating and killing them would be extremely difficult.
To truly kill them, he would have to reveal his Eighth Transformation cultivation. But as he had analyzed long ago, once that cultivation was exposed, his secret of possessing the Supreme Immortal Body would inevitably come to light.
The key question was: was this truly all the manpower Heavenly Court had committed? Once he became entangled, even without additional ambushes, wouldn't Heavenly Court immediately dispatch other Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals to reinforce?
By then, it was entirely possible that Dragon Duke, Fairy Ziwu, and Qin Dingling would all arrive to join the battle.
Fang Yuan piloted the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Car with the agility of a fish, dodging as best he could while fending off the fierce assaults of the two Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals, still searching for a path to break through.
Boom, boom, boom…
The Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Car charged left and crashed right, slamming into the ground again and again.
Each time the Immortal Gu house's momentum was halted, Wei Feng and Fengxian Crown Prince seized the opportunity to relentlessly bombard it.
Heavenly Court's formation was clearly the product of extensive preparation. These two Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals worked in seamless coordination—the wind fanning the flames, the fire amplifying the wind's fury.
The pressure on the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Car grew greater with each passing moment. Fortunately, many of Fang Yuan's subordinates were still inside, drenched in sweat as they busily carried out repairs and replaced the Gu insects throughout the vehicle.
After colliding with barriers numerous times, combined with his wisdom-path mastery, Fang Yuan began to discern the underlying principles: "This killer move, Heaven and Earth Invert, is truly ingenious beyond measure. It has carved this entire stretch of world into countless blocks, and can continuously rearrange their positions. It is merely a single killer move, not a battlefield killer move, which is why it can be activated so rapidly. But its effect is to reshape an entire region of the world, effectively creating a battlefield that traps the enemy all the same."
A battlefield killer move required time to fully activate. Fang Yuan was alert and cunning—those few moments would have been more than enough for him to escape.
That was precisely why Heavenly Court had developed this Heaven and Earth Invert killer move. Its activation was so swift that even while piloting the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Car, Fang Yuan hadn't had time to get away, a testament to how thoroughly Heavenly Court had thought this through.
Since his rebirth, Fang Yuan had defeated Heavenly Court time and again. But Heavenly Court could never be underestimated. Once they had recovered their bearings, they had cooked up a killer move that rendered several of Fang Yuan's most relied-upon teleportation methods completely useless.
"This Heaven and Earth Invert killer move still has flaws compared to a proper battlefield killer move. If I can deduce its essence, I can disrupt or interfere with it, then slip through one of the sky blocks and escape. Right now, though… it's not time yet," Fang Yuan mused silently. He suddenly pivoted the flying car's heading and flew toward Ancestor Thousand Transformations.
Heavenly Court hadn't anticipated Fang Yuan changing his mind so abruptly, and for a moment they were caught off guard, allowing him to approach Ancestor Thousand Transformations.
Ancestor Thousand Transformations was guarding the great formation behind him, and despite the relentless bombardment from the two Heavenly Court Eighth Transformation cultivators, his defense held firm.
Heaven and Earth Invert had partitioned the entire battlefield, but the patch of sky where Ancestor Thousand Transformations stood could not be divided, becoming the most spacious section of the fractured world.
Upon seeing Fang Yuan return in the Ten Thousand Year Battle Flying Car, Ancestor Thousand Transformations scoffed, "Fang Yuan, what brings you back?"
Fang Yuan smiled. "Ancestor, the great formation behind you has been locked down as well, hasn't it? Right now, neither of us can escape. Why not work together? You hold off Heavenly Court's assault for a while and buy us some time, while I carefully deduce and refine the formation. Getting out of here won't be difficult at all."
Ancestor Thousand Transformations spat dismissively. "You expect me to believe that nonsense?"
Fang Yuan was taken aback. Judging from Ancestor Thousand Transformations' expression, the old man was busy but far from panicked—it seemed he held trump cards of his own.
An ordinary Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal would find themselves in an impossibly dire situation under these circumstances. But Ancestor Thousand Transformations possessed a complete inheritance of the Madness Barbarian True Record. What hidden cards he might be concealing was something that neither Fang Yuan nor Heavenly Court could estimate.